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Saturday, February 20, 2016

Cousin Bait Wins Again!

I have been working on re-doing my family tree as part of the 2016 Genealogy Do-Over and in the past week I entered the Baptism records of 29 children that were born between 1820 and 1834 in the tiny village of Oberselters, Hessen-Nassau, Germany. The six families involved were Burbach (3 brothers) Muller ( I don't know yet if the Mullers were related) and Pabst families.

Susanna Burbach had moved to Wurges after her marriage to Johann Georg Meurer and her children were Baptized in Wurges. Susanna's daughter Anna Maria Meurer married Andreas Hassler and they remained in the area.

This week ancestry.com sent me an email that someone had posted a message on my account. The message was from Patrik Hassler in Germany! Patrik wrote that Susanna Burbach Meurer was his 3rd Great-grandmother and he still lived in the area. He found my tree on ancestry.com and was looking for family in the United States. My 2nd Great-grandfather Hubert was a brother of Susanna Burbach!! Another cousin found. Whoot!!